[music & lyrics Thegn Damieus]



Above swelling seas of blackness

Dark crags tower in funeral silence

Grim buzzards soar and circle

As charnel beacons to dreaded lands

Rise from stone a forlorn tower

Hidden by towers of timbers exalted

Shimmering in the wan of light of the moon

Like an eidolon drifting betwixt lonely mausolea



The dwelling of the wretched crone-enthroned over deep waters

Perched atop horned scarps-the vicinage of Vshanaad

A promontory haunted-a twisted tower dire

A ancient witch and blind- Vaentella



The sightless hag greets her guest

As a strange silhouette descends from the night

'Tis the monstrous crow feared as Kroln

Burdened with a dormant shape



And so the twaine doth remove

to the nether-vaults below

With the sleeper bound in net

an orphan seized by Kroln!



Cobwebs arass the chamber- so cluttered with ornaments

Crucibles of tomb-dust froth- cruses and vials bubble

Cauldrons boil a fetid brew- wherein limbs of infants stew

Impedimenta of black arts- devotion to the Nether-Guild



The dreaming child awakes, fettered to a bed of stone

"Her orbs will fit exquisitely", Vaentella opines to the crow

The eyelids of the girl sewn back with the web of worm

How lovely are her eyes... such a prize to the blind



Vaentella procures anon a tool, an ensorcelled hook of horn

Remove the frightened stare from her face, rape the sense of sight

The heart of the child abducted, so loathsomely pecked out by Kroln

Drain the steaming red, flood the witch's hollow sockets



"I shall be whole once again..."

The black bird seemed to laugh

As the thunder clapped outside

For the gleaming spheres had been set

And the blind witch could then see

Through the glare of another

Aggrandized by necromancy

Her visitas took a new shade

"I can spy beyond the sight!"



Vaentella stands enthralled

Atop forsaken Vshanaad

Glaring through cascading rain

Able to see the oldest secrets



For now the trees are won't to whisper

And the seas tell forgotten tales

The skies quoth the unremembered

And strange constellations intimate the unknown

Now an infinity of knowledge

Forever shall unfold



Peer through the yawning gulfs of antiquity

And the chasms of archaic wisdom

Now an infinity of knowledge

Forever shall unfold...